Chapter 1310 Engagement

Of course, grain still has to be planted, but before the first few items, the abundant output of the granary of Wuyuan Ancient County may not be the largest source of income in Yanzhou City in the future.

What the Great Song Dynasty needs is people of insight who are willing to participate in the development of Yanzhou together, and they will definitely support the gentry who have a good impression of the Great Song Dynasty first.

Attitude is the most important, and performance is the best proof of attitude.

Therefore, the current Eastern Route Army does not need to work Shen Kuo, except for ammunition, other military quartermasters can do it themselves.

He put the binoculars into the leather box and handed it to the sergeant on duty beside him: "Did you hear what the prison commander said?" When it's snowing, I'll set up a tent in the corner, light a charcoal stove outside, and heat a pot of water. ”

Tong Guan took out a few toffees from his leather bag and handed them over: "Coax your mouth during the vigil." ”

Several sergeants gratefully accepted it, and then gave them a military salute.

He returned the salute and led Tong Guan to the beacon tower, where there were four walls to withstand the wind and snow outside.

The cook brought over dinner, which was two dead dough cakes for one person, a bowl of mutton soup, and there were many things in the mutton soup, in addition to mutton and haggis, there were also dried vegetables, canned luncheon meat, and canned beef.

The charcoal fire in the house was blazing, and the sergeant instructed the sergeant: "The prison soldier has a weaker spleen and stomach, and next time remember to soak the cake in a small piece of soup." A bit of eyesight! ”

After speaking, he said to Tong Guan: "I like to chew dead dough cakes, so I don't wait for the priest, I will start first." ”

Tong Guan smiled: "It's so delicate there, I'll do it myself." ”

While kneading the dough into small pieces and throwing it into a bowl, he shook his head: "This kind of weather will be put aside until a few years ago, let alone a war, and it will be fatal if you come down two hundred miles." ”

The muscles on the cheeks bulged, and he was more energetic than the bread, and he took a sip of mutton soup and drank it, and he was not afraid of being hot: "Hey, hey, the current recruits are happy, put it aside twenty years ago, not to mention sweaters, cotton jackets, gloves, shoes and socks, the daily food of the generals in the battalion is only half a bowl of minced meat and bean porridge in addition to wheat rice." ”

After speaking, he picked out a piece of tempeh fish from the tin can on the stove and sandwiched it in the cake: "You can still eat the fatty fish from Liangzhejiang Road under the stopper, and there is a handsome man who likes to scratch on the mouth, where can people be reasonable?" ”

Tong Guan wanted to say that he had seen the world: "This thing is worthless over there, I heard that when the fishing flood, Mingzhou Port has to use a big ship like Kuizhou, a huge net, a net is 100,000 catties!" ”

He has never been to the beach in his life, and he has never seen what it looks like to put 100,000 catties of fish into the net, but when converted into the weight of sheep, it is a large flock of more than 1,000 sheep: "Really fake? Then the whole boat went out to sea to fish and make canned food, didn't it make a lot of money? ”

Tong Guan said: "Of course it's true, but you can't make a fortune by hunting this kind of fish, and what is popular there now is whale chasing." ”

"When the Taiwei goes to Beijing, I will take you to see the whale skeleton in Yujin Garden, you know how big that thing is, as long as you hit one, you have to boil oil at sea and take whale baleen. When you return to the port, you will really make a fortune. ”

He was surprised: "What are these things for?" ”

Tong Guan said: "The nobles in Beijing now use whale oil lamps, which are smokeless and tasteless, and the brightness is extremely high, not like the whirring sound of the blowtorch, and it is not noisy to read." ”

"Adding spices is a good thing for emollients, and the price is much more expensive than your Tianfang oil."

"There are also the heads, belts, and silk umbrellas of the ladies now, all of which are made of whale baleen as supports, and the white rattan heads that used to be precious have now become things used under the five grades."

"There are also carriage bow plates, the top carriages in Beijing, and now all the whale baleen plates are used, which are much lighter than spring steel bow plates."

"Since last year, if you don't have a whip with a baleen core on your wrist, the gentlemen in Beijing will be embarrassed to ride out on horseback."

"There are a lot of these things after Cao Liu, I'll give you one one day!"

While the two were chatting, the farmer had already finished eating a cake, drank his mutton soup, and stood up with the rest of the cake: "The prison army is slow, I still have to go to patrol the camp." ”

Walking out of the city gate building, he turned back: "Your horsewhip is mediocre, but the elasticity is excellent, it must be the core of the whale baleen core, right?" Then wait for you to take it after you see Cao Liu, and now this root will belong to my old seed. ”

After speaking, he took out the horse whip from Tong Guan's marching bed: "I'll just say why is your whip so weird, hahahaha, it's so ......"

"Huh?" Tong Guan hurriedly raised his head: "Don't ......"

However, Chong Ge had already strode down the city tower with his whip, and Tong Guan was so angry that he poked his head out of the window and shouted: "Chong Wu, you are a straight thief mountain bandit!" Lao Tzu shouldn't have taught you this goodness! ”

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Compared with the happy East Road, the fate of the Middle Route Army is different.

Although the Lingzhou River is a river valley, it is a river valley that crosses the Gobi, the roads on both sides of the river valley are very rough, and there are huge boulders blocking it in many places.

Therefore, when the cadet soldiers and baggage rear team led by Su You arrived at the camp, they found that the army had only traveled more than forty miles.

"What's going on?" Su You came to the camp to find Uncle Gao Guo, and Uncle Gao Guo was picking his head at the military map: "This road is too difficult for a straight thief, and the gun truck and van can't run." ”

"That's it......" Su You also sat down: "I've seen it all the way, the front army still has to pave the road and cushion the road, it's not a way to go on like this...... Wait a minute! ”

Out of the camp, Su You ran to the craftsman camp: "From the Institute of Technology, come out with me!" Bring the auger! ”

Taking the polytechnic team to the river surface of the Lingzhou River, Su You said: "Make a hole and see how thick the ice is!" ”

Soon the results came out, and the ice was thirty centimeters thick.

Thirty centimeters can basically pass a big car, in order to be safe, Su You asked the polytechnic team to calculate the pressure that the ice surface can withstand, and finally remove the upper baffle of the van and disassemble it, install it under the wheels at the bottom of the van, and transform the van into a strange appearance like stepping on two skis.

That night and throughout the day of the next day, Su You asked Uncle Gao Guo to lead the cavalry first, and he commanded the rear team to open a gentle slope by the river, pour river water, and turn it into a long slide.

Then, when the temperature was cooler at night, the convoy was slid down the ramp to the river, and the horses' hooves were wrapped with straw mats and felt, and the wagons were dragged through the extended ropes to chase the front army.

The advance of the great army was suddenly quickened, and the chariot and cavalry marched along the river in a staggered manner, and could advance eighty miles in a day.

The river was winding, and the actual marching route was much longer than the straight-line distance on the army map, and on the evening of the fourth day, when the Suyou rear team arrived at the camp, Gao Zunyu had already engaged the Xia army.

There was a small river canal here, and on the opposite bank was a farm, where more than 50,000 Xia troops gathered and stubbornly resisted Gao Zunyu.

What's even more bizarre is that the Xia people actually took an offensive against Gao Zunyu! The sudden offensive forced Gao Zunyu to make a quick decision, blew up several small bridges on the canal, and sniped Xia Qi through the natural terrain of the river.

When Su You came to the camp, he found that Gao Zunyu was discussing military affairs with Wang Hou, Cao Nan, and Li Wenzhao.

Li Wenzhao's 20,000 men could only be regarded as scouts of the rear army, and they set off before the new army, and they went all the way down, but they were ambushed by the Xia army at Wuma Bridge.

However, Li Wenzhao's name as the old fox of Dushan was not in vain, and he found that the enemy army was strong, so he immediately fought and retreated, and did not fall into the trap, and the whole army retreated to the south of the small river canal to wait for the arrival of the new army.

The Xia people also tried to send cavalry to cross the river, but as soon as Gao Zunyu arrived, he immediately ordered the bridge to be blown up, and then stabilized the situation first.

Su You spoke highly of Uncle Gao's decision, it should be like this, after the new army palace, there is no need to fight hard with the Xia people at all, first drag the van from the river and arrange it along the canal, it is only a hundred miles away from Lingzhou, and the Xia people will definitely attack tomorrow.

comforted Li Wenzhao, who had a small loss, Gao Zunyu asked, "What about them?" ”

Su You said: "Look at the artillery camp position, let me take a look......"

After speaking, he pointed to a small hill on the military map: "Here it is!" ”

Gao Zunyu nodded: "It's their turn tomorrow." ”

Su You said: "Yes, I have to keep an eye on it, I have to work hard all the way here, tell the army, save some ammunition, don't waste your temper." ”